> CS degrees are overrated. CS is not a science.

I disagree, but what's a real science anyway?

--> XKCD Purity

> It's probably the only field where self-taught people exceed in talent most CS graduates.

hng ... I have to work everyday with self-taught people and it drives me crazy to repeat things like "running your code twice successfully in the debugger doesn't qualify as testing"

OTOH .... the objective of university studies is to produce scientists not programmers.

But most jobs don't require scientists but engineers.

And those workplaces which are heavy on the theoretical side tend to hire mathematicians or physicists for their analytical skills.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

In reply to Re^2: OT: Computer Science for (a couple steps up from) Dummies by LanX
in thread OT: Computer Science for (a couple steps up from) Dummies by Your Mother

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